Comparative analysis detects dependencies among the 5′ splice-site positions

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 828-840

  Carmel, Ido ^a   Tal, Saar ^a   Vig, Ida ^a   Ast, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

5 splice site; Comparative genomics; Familial dysautonomia; MRNA splicing; Mutual relationship; U1 snRNA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DYSAUTONOMIA; EXON; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 1942469356     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5196404     Document Type: Article

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